Michael T. Flynn Quotes

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Women's rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids, even serve as teachers and doctors, but they aren't trusted with their own lives.

When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world - that are crucial issues - some are saying 'Oh, these are western values.' But these are really universal values.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he said, 'the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life.' So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough female firefighters here in America.

So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.

We are going to fight to pass the long over-due Equal Rights Amendment.

Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.

We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.